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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958075803321

Autore

Nuttall A. D (Anthony David)

Titolo

The alternative trinity : gnostic heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake / / A.D. Nuttall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press, 2007

ISBN

9780191518577

0191518573

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

[xiv], 282 p., [4] p. of plates : ill

Disciplina

820.9382

Soggetti

Christian heresies in literature

Gnosticism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- I: BLAKE: THE SON VERSUS THE FATHER -- II: RAISING THE DEVIL: MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS -- (i) Calvinists and Hermetists -- (ii) Flying Men and Gnostics -- III: MILTON -- (i) Satan's Shield -- (ii) Milton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom -- (iii) The Garden as Maze -- (iv) The Fortunate Fall -- (v) Arianism, Monism, Materialism -- (vi) The Invisible Christ -- (vii) The Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies -- IV: BLAKE -- (i) Godly Nudists -- (ii) The Matrix of Blake's Thought -- (iii) Blake and Milton -- (iv) Antinomian Blake -- (v) Contraries -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

What if the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist not the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake.